BADCamp 2009 was a complete success! Wow! Almost 300 people walked through the door, to find out what this Drupal thing is all about, to answer questions, to share knowledge, to contribute to the Drupal project, to build community, and to much some vegan donuts.

Thanks to all the speakers, volunteers, sponsors, and everyone that showed up!

Slides and presentation are available at: http://badcamp.net/badcamp-2009-wrapup

Here the slides from my Welcome to BADCamp kickoff:

Registration is now open for BADCamp 2009 - http://badcamp.net/register

This is the third annual Bay Area Drupal Camp held at UC Berkeley. Each year has been a huge success, and a little bigger than the year before. We'll see how many people show up this time. The San Francisco Bay Area is an super-exciting place to be working on Drupal right now. When I started the Berkeley users group, it was the only regular Drupal group in the area. Now there are active groups in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley and Sacramento, and DrupalCon is coming to SF in 2010! The buzz is palpable.

Registration for Bay Area Drupal Camp 2008 is open over at
http://badcamp.net/. I recommend signing up quick. We are going to push the attendance cap higher this year, but the camp is still almost a month away, and we already have over 125 people registered. And there is no way the space can handle the 400+ people that just showed up to DrupalCampLA this weekend.

Not only was the Bay Area Drupal Camp a successful gathering and a lot of fun, but it turns out it was also a successful fund raiser for the Drupal Association. Thanks to our generous sponsors and t-shirt sales, we raised $950 more than we spent putting on the camp. That money is now a holiday gift to the Drupal Association from BADCamp and the Berkeley Drupal Users Group. We hope some of this money will go to help groups with less access to corporate sponsorship put on regional camps of their own.

Once again, special thanks to Dan, Chris, Pete and Jen for all their work making BADCamp happen, and to Sun and OpenCircle Tech for the great after-party. Let's do it again next year!

* 264 accounts on badcamp07.org
* 220 registered attendees
* ~70% checked off at on-site Reg Station
* 10% showed up at the door
* Bodies on-site peaked around 190 for second slot on Saturday
* Still 70 people at end of the last slot on Sunday
* Location Breakdown
** 25% Berkeley
** 20% San Francisco
** 5% Southern California
** 5% Out-of-State (or country)
* Skills Breakdown
** 40+% Programmer
** 40% Administrators
** 10% Drupal Ninjas
** 20% Evaluators
* Community
** 25% Contibute to Drupal
** 40% Offer Drupal Services
** 10% Looking for Drupal work

I am sleepy but very happy, as I sit here in the last session of the day. The room is packed to overflowing, which makes sense, since it is an overview on theming offered by this year's star presenter, Dmitri Gaskin (if we could clone him, in 11 years we would rule the world).

Call me a big old geek is you will, but I am so thrilled to be in a room packed full of people excited to see automatically generated charts of the Drupal call stack.

We have 200 people signed up for BADCamp. Wow.

Update: View all my BADCamp blog posts

I am really excited to be organizing a DrupalCamp at UC Berkeley. The institute I work at, CITRIS, is hosting BADCamp 07, the weekend of November 3rd and 4th: 9am to 5pm.

I have been getting lots of help from the members of the “Berkeley Drupal Users Group”, particularly Dan from CivicActions, Pete from OpenCircle Technology, and Chris from Alian Design.